Aarne-Thompson-Uther (ATU) - Types of Folktales

1650: The Three Lucky Brothers

ATU > 1200-1999: ANECDOTES AND JOKES > 1525-1724: Stories about a Man > 1640-1674: Lucky Accidents > 1650: The Three Lucky Brothers

Description

Their inheritances: a cock, a scythe, a cat. The fortunate sales. I. The Inheritances. (a) The eldest brother inherits a cock, the second a scythe (see Type 1202), the youngest a cat (see Type 1651); or (b) they inherit a millstone, a musical…

Examples

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Text title	ATU	Language	Author	Origin	Publication Date
De drie gelukskinderen	1650	Dutch	M.M. de Vries-Vogel	Germany	1940
Die drei Glückskinder	1650	German	Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm	Germany	1812
I tre figli della fortuna	1650	Italian	_	Germany	_
Ba người số đỏ	1650	Vietnamese	_	Germany	_
De tre lykkebørn	1650	Danish	_	Germany	_
Los tres favoritos de la fortuna	1650	Spanish	_	Germany	_
The three children of fortune	1650	English	Margaret Hunt	Germany	_
Les trois enfants gâtés de la fortune	1650	French	_	Germany	_

External Examples

Story	ATU	Origin	Author	Year	Source
El gallo, el gato y la hoz	1650	España	David Mañero Lozano	2017	Corpus de Literatura Oral
The Three Children of Fortune	1650	German			Internet Archive
Van den haan, den vlegel en de pik	1650	Netherlands		1889	Nederlandse VolksverhalenBank

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